This page assumes that you will be using it as a reference along with the Beginners Guide. In addition, a discussion of general setup is available from the main article on the Acer Aspire One, although the hardware is quite different. A discussion of various other issues and tweaks is available in the Ubuntu forums.

Setup Issues

Most things on the Acer Aspire One 722 work more or less out of the box, as long as you do what the Beginners Guide says to do. There are however some special steps required.

Video

The AO722 uses the xf86-video-ati driver, which can be installed with pacman.

Wired and Wireless Networking

Read Wireless Setup. One special issue is that the bcma module conflicts with brcmsmac and needs to be blacklisted. See the discussion here.

Audio

Initially audio doesn't work at all except for beeping. The problem can be fixed by opening /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf and replacing every instance of "card 0" with "card 1". (Taken from this discussion in the forums.)

There seems to be no way to make the 722 sense a headphone or speaker jack. A workaround that involves running a script every time you want to switch is described here in the forums.

Dual Boot

See Windows and Arch Dual Boot for general information. Note that this netbook does not come with recovery CDs. If an attempt to set up dual boot goes awry and you can't boot the machine at all, or can't boot into Windows, you can restore the original Windows configuration by booting into /dev/sda1, the recovery partition, as if it were an ordinary Windows installation. The recovery program says it will wipe the whole disk but will only wipe the partition on which Windows resides. (You can install grub from the Arch installation media onto a thumbdrive and take it from there.)